A boy's love comes from a full heart; a man's is more often the result of a full stomach.
A shy man's lot is not a happy one. The men dislike him, the women despise him, and he dislikes and despises himself. Use brings him no relief, and there is no cure for him except time.
Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
Conceit is the finest armor that a man can wear.
Everything comes too late in this world.
Human thought is not a firework, ever shooting off fresh forms and shapes as it burns; it is a tree, growing very slowly- you can watch it long and see no movement- very silently, unnoticed.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgments, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
If you would taste love, drink of the pure stream that youth pours out at your feet. Do not wait till it has become a muddy river before you stoop to catch its waves.
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need- a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.
Nothing- so it seems to me... is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life... The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of- of things longer.
Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.
The human mind can no more produce an original thought than a tree can bear an original fruit.
The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of- of things longer.
The weather is like the government- always in the wrong.
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
Vanity is truly the motive-power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe.
We do not hate, nor grieve, nor joy, nor despair in our thirties like we did in our teens. Disappointment does not suggest suicide, and we quaff success without intoxication.
We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
We take all things in a minor key as we grow older. There are few majestic passages in the later acts of life's opera.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
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